FEEDING THE BEAST @alexjdsmith - Tumblr Blog

Might do this one as a t-shirt.

My latest project, up now.

On lizard brains, multimodal integration, and the search for ambiguity.

I wrote a thing on photography, multimodal integration, and ambiguity:

“By operating independently of our integrated sensory system the camera can serve as an autonomous eye, pulling back the veil of our neurological interpretation of the world and revealing things we didn’t see, even though they were right in front of us. Maybe photography is mysterious precisely because it removes the filter of our own neurological framework, allowing us to climb out of our heads and look at the world in an entirely different way. The simple act of photographing a scene recontextualizes every single object within the frame. By halting the constant flow of visual information it removes the illusion of certainty that our multi-sensory perception generates.”